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Evelyn Waugh: It is a...

Evelyn Waugh: It is a...

It is a curious thing that every creed promises a paradise which will be absolutely uninhabitable for anyone of...

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Lois McMaster Bujold: A weapon is...

Lois McMaster Bujold: A weapon is...

A weapon is a device for making your enemy change his mind.

Source: In Collection...

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Joseph Heller: I think in...

Joseph Heller: I think in...

I think in every country that there is at least one executive who is scared of going...

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Hermann Goering: The Americans cannot...

Hermann Goering: The Americans cannot...

The Americans cannot build aeroplanes. They are very good at refrigerators and razor...

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Pearl Buck: You cannot make...

Pearl Buck: You cannot make...

You cannot make yourself feel something you do not feel, but you can make yourself do right in spite of your...

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Charles Buxton: Experience shows that...

Charles Buxton: Experience shows that...

Experience shows that success is due less to ability than to zeal. The winner is he who gives himself to his work body...

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Samuel Smiles: The very greatest...

Samuel Smiles: The very greatest...

The very greatest things -- great thoughts, discoveries, inventions -- have usually been nurtured in hardship, often...

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Paule Marshall: Perhaps she was...

Paule Marshall: Perhaps she was...

Perhaps she was both child and woman,
darkness and light, past and present,
life and death -- all the...

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Karl von Clausewitz: Pursue one great...

Karl von Clausewitz: Pursue one great...

Pursue one great decisive aim with force and determination.

Source: In The...

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Robert Baden-Powell: A Scout smiles...

Robert Baden-Powell: A Scout smiles...

A Scout smiles and whistles under all circumstances.

Source: Scouting for...

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James Truslow Adams: We cannot advance...

James Truslow Adams: We cannot advance...

We cannot advance without new experiments in living, but no wise man tries every day what he has proved wrong the day...

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Arnold (Joseph) Toynbee: America is a...

Arnold (Joseph) Toynbee: America is a...

America is a large, friendly dog in a very small room. Every time it wags its tail it knocks over a...

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Jacob Bronowski: Sooner or later...

Jacob Bronowski: Sooner or later...

Sooner or later every one of us breathes an atom that has been breathed before by anyone you can think of who has...

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Jacob Bronowski: To me, being...

Jacob Bronowski: To me, being...

To me, being an intellectual doesn't mean knowing about intellectual issues; it means taking pleasure in...

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Gertrude Stein: Everybody gets so...

Gertrude Stein: Everybody gets so...

Everybody gets so much information all day long that they lose their common sense.

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Margot Asquith: Dear boy, it...

Margot Asquith: Dear boy, it...

Dear boy, it isn't that your manners are bad -- it's simply that you have no manners at...

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Louis Brandeis: Behind every argument...

Louis Brandeis: Behind every argument...

Behind every argument is someone's ignorance.

Source: In The Speaker's Electronic...

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Barbara De Angelis: Love is a...

Barbara De Angelis: Love is a...

Love is a force more formidable than any other. It is invisible -- it cannot be seen or measured, yet it is powerful...

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Mary Ritter Beard: Action without study...

Mary Ritter Beard: Action without study...

Action without study fatal. Study without action is futile.

Source: In The Forbes...

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William Hastie: Difficulty need not...

William Hastie: Difficulty need not...

Difficulty need not foreshadow despair or defeat. Rather achievement can be all the more satisfying because of...

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